Advanced Soil Mechanics
A graduate-level civil engineering course from MIT OpenCourseWare covering the mechanics of soils used in geotechnical design. Topics include the origin and classification of soils, the effective stress principle, hydraulic conductivity and seepage, and the stress-strain-strength behavior of both cohesionless and cohesive soils. The course applies these principles to lateral earth pressures, bearing capacity, slope stability, consolidation theory, and settlement analysis. It also covers laboratory and field methods for measuring soil properties used in engineering practice. Materials follow MIT's OpenCourseWare format, typically including lecture notes, problem sets, and readings, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, free to access with no certificate offered.